TO V. A. KARPINSKY

Written:Written after May 23, 1914Published:First published in 1930 inLenin Miscellany XIII.

      Sent from Poronin to Geneva.

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	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 36,

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DearFriend,

Manythanks for Volume I of Rubakin. I will return
it soon. If it is urgent, drop me a line. I amveryglad that
you don’t sympathise withSovremennik: it is a rotten
undertaking by a bloc of two lots of scoundrels, the
liquidators and the Narodniks. We shall attack it violently.
(Mr. Stankevich invited me; I replied: “Because I do not
agree in the main, I must decline to be a
contributor.”[1])

Ofcourse, to earn a living all of us sometimes have to
work in bourgeois publications! But Messrs. Martov and
Dan have made a “demonstration” of it! Plekhanov, too,
is in that disgraceful
place![2]

Ishall be glad to send you the credential of a delegate:
do you want it to be legal (how?) or
illegal?[3]

Allthe best,Yours,Lenin

[1]Seep. 276 of this volume.—Ed.

[2]Thework of L. Martov, F. Dan and G. Plekhanov inSovremennik.

[3]V.Karpinskywas delegated to the Vienna International Congress
of the Second International (which was not held).